Little Women: Illustrated by M. E. Gray: 0000 (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) - Hardcover

Alcott, Louisa May

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679436421 ISBN 13: 9780679436423

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1994

Synopsis

"Little Women" is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee, " blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love...Meg prepares for marriage and a family...Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically...and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, "Little Women" is a treasure -- a story whose enduring values of patience, loyalty, and love have kept this extraordinary family close to the hearts of generation after generation of delighted readers.

About this title

Product Description:

Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of the four sisters' dreams, quarrels, and romances are brought to vivid life in this edition that features full cloth binding in bold, bright colors; silk ribbon marker and headband; two-color illustrated endpapers and illustrations throughout. A brie

Review:

"The American female myth."
--Madelon Bedell

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679436421
• ISBN 13: 9780679436423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 530
• Illustrator: Gray M E